Rediscovering the Past in the Missouri Basin, Public Production

Author(s): R. Smith

Year: 1952

Summary

The recent acceleration of the water development and conservation program for the Missouri Basin has produced a crisis for the archeologists concerned with the area. The more permanent villages of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Plains were overwhelmingly concentrated in the valleys of the major rivers. The remains of literally thousands of such villages will be unintentional casualties of the water resources development program. This is the story of what archeologists are doing toward meeting that crisis.

Cite this Record

Rediscovering the Past in the Missouri Basin, Public Production. R. Smith. 1952 ( tDAR id: 394097) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8FF3VGT

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Arikara • Cheyenne • Crow • Hidatsa • Historic • Mandan • Pawnee

Material
Beans • Bison • Blade • Chipped Stone • Corn • Hoes • Pottery • Squash

Site Name
39CH7 • 39FA65 • 39SL4 • 39ST14 • 39ST30 • 48BH7 • 48CK204 • 48FR99 • Fort Sully • Long Site

Site Type
Circular House • Petroglyphs • Quarry Pits

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research

Geographic Keywords
Angosturs Reservoir • Boysen Reservoir • Fort Randall Reservoir • Garrison Reservoir • Harlan County Reservoir • Jamestown Reservoir • Keyhole Reservoir • Medicine Creek • Medicine Creek Reservoir • Missouri River • Missouri River Basin • Nebraska (State / Territory) • North Dakota • Oahe Reservoir • PLAINS • South Dakota • South Dakota (State / Territory) • Trenton Reservoir • Wyoming (State / Territory) • Yellowtail Reservoir

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric

Spatial Coverage

min long: -110.918; min lat: 39.3 ; max long: -88.945; max lat: 48.691 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Anne Vawser

Contributor(s): R. Smith; National Park Service; Montana State University; State Historical Society of North Dakota; University of Nebraska Laboratory of Anthropology; University of Nebraska; University of Nebraska State Museum; South Dakota Archaeological Commisson

Sponsor(s): Missouri River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution

Notes

General Note: Multiple tDAR resources were created in the past by the National Archaeological Database. All useful and important information has been combined into this current resource.

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